Response to air strikes on Syria not what anyone expected …

Before (left) and after (right) shots of the Barzeh research facility in Syria. Apart from a couple of smallish fires there does not appear to be much difference to a target Trump claims was devastated by FUKUS axis missiles (Image source: NPR radio)

After the bluster and bombast of Trump’s build up to launching air strikes on Syria, the low key response from Russia appears to have surprised many people. Did anyone really think an operator like Vladimir Putin would reply with the kind of knee jerk reaction we expect from Trump? The fact that none of the US ships in the eastern MedIterranean have yet been sunk and no US bases in the region have yet been bombed means nothing.

In fact while most pundits are warning that Putin is a chess player and will be planning a careful strategy, we at The Daily Stirrer believe the Russians and their allies have acted more like Rugby players by getting their retaliation in first. Can it really be coincidence that the latest alleged chemical weapon incident came just a few days after the Petroyouan, a rival reserve currency to The Petrodollar was launched on the Shanghai commodities market, the latests step in a long campaign China and Russia have waged to replace the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
It seems Russia and China are not scared of a shooting war with the USA, but would rather fight a currency war.

There are other possible reasons why the west’s push for war in the middle east has suddenly escalated after the misguided attempt to depose Assad’s government and put an Islamic extremist regime sympathetic to the US and under the influence of Saudi Arabia in its place, in order to finally get the long wished for pipeline from the Gulf oilfields to the Mediterranean coast and Europe built.

Here’s the Chinese reaction to the US led strike on Syria as reported at Zero Hedge:

As we reported yesterday, China was the first superpower outside those directly involved to slam the US airstrikes: “Any unilateral military action violates the United Nations charter and its principles and international law and its principles. [The strikes] are also going to add more factors to complicate the resolution of the Syrian crisis,” Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement on Saturday afternoon.

Beijing also called for an investigation into claims of a Syrian poison gas attack on the rebel-held town of Douma that rescuers and monitors say killed more than 40 people, and prompted the Western action: “The Chinese side believes a comprehensive, impartial and objective investigation should be conducted into the suspected chemical attacks and it should come up with reliable conclusions … Before this, no conclusion by any side should be made,” Hua said. READ MORE >>>

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